It seems appropriate that the league would choose two of the Original Six teams to play in the sixth edition of the Winter Classic. The rivalry between the Leafs and Wings stretches back to 1927, when both teams had different nicknames (the St. Patricks and the Cougars) and Detroit played their home games across the border in Windsor. With the game only a five-hour drive from Toronto, we suspect a sizeable contingent of Leafs fans will make the westward trek along Highway 401 to a university town used to seeing sports nuts wandering its streets clad in maize and blue.